Following not one but two reductions in its EPA fuel-economy ratings, sales of the C-Max languished. The plug-in hybrid C-Max Energi went out of production last year, and the conventional hybrid model will follow within a few months.

Ford’s only other hybrid model—the Fusion Hybrid mid-size sedan, along with an Energi plug-in variant—was launched back in 2012 as a 2013 vehicle.

As for battery-electric models, the Ford Focus Electric was launched even longer ago, in 2012. It got a battery-capacity upgrade for 2017 but its sales are at nothing more than compliance-car levels.

With Toyota RAV4 Hybrid sales strong, the Nissan Rogue Hybrid also on the market, and a Honda CR-V Hybrid likely to arrive within a year or two, Ford would seem to be missing a beat in its traditionally strong compact crossover segment.

Will one be announced as part of the next Ford Escape, probably launching in 2020 as a 2021 model? (It will be sold in Europe, too, where it’s known as the Ford Kuga.)

We’ll watch tomorrow’s event with great interest, since the company will likely talk at least somewhat about its plans for electrified vehicles.

China will do it to give its local automakers a global edge, and to cut the dangerous air pollution in most of its major cities.

And Ford will have to comply there, because like all global makers, it needs access to the world’s largest car market by far.

Europe will do it because its leaders and citizens accept the scientific consensus on climate change.

The question tomorrow, then, may be not so much whether Ford will launch new hybrid and electric vehicles, but whether any of them will actually be sold in the U.S.—and whether it thinks buyers will show any interest.